The letter omega is transliterated into a Latin-script alphabet as ō or simply o.Īs the final letter in the Greek alphabet, omega is often used to denote the last, the end, or the ultimate limit of a set, in contrast to alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet see Alpha and Omega. In Modern Greek, both omega and omicron represent the mid back rounded vowel IPA: or IPA.

In phonetic terms, the Ancient Greek Ω represented a long open-mid back rounded vowel IPA:, comparable to the 'aw' of the English word raw in dialects without the cot–caught merger, in contrast to omicron which represented the close-mid back rounded vowel IPA:, and the digraph ου which represented the long close-mid back rounded vowel IPA. The word literally means 'great O' ( ō mega, mega meaning 'great'), as opposed to omicron, which means 'little O' ( o mikron, micron meaning 'little'). In the Greek numeric system/ isopsephy ( gematria), it has a value of 800. Omega ( / oʊ ˈ m iː ɡ ə, oʊ ˈ m ɛ ɡ ə, oʊ ˈ m eɪ ɡ ə, ə ˈ m iː ɡ ə/ capital: Ω, lowercase: ω Ancient Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the twenty-fourth and final letter in the Greek alphabet.

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